# DBRX vs Qwen3.5-9B

> Qwen3.5-9B is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.3 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/dbrx-vs-qwen3-5-9b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 1

## Summary

- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. DBRX scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3.5-9B in 4 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3.5-9B leads 46.0 to 14.9.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 32.9% for DBRX and 79% for Qwen3.5-9B.

## Snapshot

| | DBRX | Qwen3.5-9B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Databricks | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 29.0 | 33.3 |
| Rank | 307 | 235 |
| Context | — | 262K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.10 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.15 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- DBRX: 32.3 (#262)
- Qwen3.5-9B: 35.3 (#213)

| Benchmark | DBRX | Qwen3.5-9B |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | — | 27.5% |
| LMArena Coding | 1132 | — |
| HumanEval+ | 70.1% | — |
| MBPP+ | 55.8% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- DBRX: —
- Qwen3.5-9B: 14.4 (#143)

| Benchmark | DBRX | Qwen3.5-9B |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | — | 9.2% |

## Reasoning

- DBRX: 20.5 (#218)
- Qwen3.5-9B: 22.5 (#178)

| Benchmark | DBRX | Qwen3.5-9B |
|---|---|---|
| CritPt | — | 0.3% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 12% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1113 | — |
| DTBench | — | 71.2% |
| LMCA | — | 24.5% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 139.45 |

## Math

- DBRX: 22.3 (#265)
- Qwen3.5-9B: 33.5 (#174)

| Benchmark | DBRX | Qwen3.5-9B |
|---|---|---|
| MathArena Final-Answer Competitions | — | 48.5% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 61.7% |
| LMArena Math | 1145 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 11.7% | — |

## Knowledge

- DBRX: 14.9 (#289)
- Qwen3.5-9B: 46.0 (#77)

| Benchmark | DBRX | Qwen3.5-9B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 32.9% | 79% |
| LMArena Expert | 1076 | — |

## Multilingual

- DBRX: 29.4 (#263)
- Qwen3.5-9B: —

| Benchmark | DBRX | Qwen3.5-9B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1071 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1068 | — |
| LMArena French | 1095 | — |
| LMArena German | 1057 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 990 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 993 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1078 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1064 | — |

## Instruction Following

- DBRX: 57.7 (#265)
- Qwen3.5-9B: —

| Benchmark | DBRX | Qwen3.5-9B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1112 | — |

## Long Context

- DBRX: 33.7 (#253)
- Qwen3.5-9B: —

| Benchmark | DBRX | Qwen3.5-9B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1112 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- DBRX: 33.7 (#271)
- Qwen3.5-9B: —

| Benchmark | DBRX | Qwen3.5-9B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1119 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1104 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1111 | — |

## FAQ

### Is DBRX better than Qwen3.5-9B?

Qwen3.5-9B is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.3 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.

### Is DBRX or Qwen3.5-9B better for coding?

Qwen3.5-9B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.3 versus 32.3 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do DBRX and Qwen3.5-9B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. DBRX has 21 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5-9B has 10.